On this subject, in his book "Occult Principles of Health and Healing,"
Max Heindel wrote the following:
« The vital body is a vehicle of habit; all parents know that during the
first seven years of childhood when this vehicle is in course of gestation that
children form one habit after another. Repetition is the keynote of the vital
body, and habits depend upon repetition. It is different with the desire body,
the vehicle of feelings and emotions which are always changing from moment to
moment; though it has been said that the ether which forms our soul body is in
constant motion and mingles with the bloodstream, that motion is relatively
slow compared to the rapidity of the current of the desire body; we may say
that the ether moves like a snail compared with light.
When
the Ego is on its way to rebirth through the Region of Concrete Thought, the
Desire World, and the Etheric Region, it gathers a certain amount of material
from each. The quality of this material is determined by the seed atom, on the
principle that like attracts like. The quantity depends upon the amount of matter
required by the archetype built by ourselves in the second Heaven. From the
quantity of prismatic ether atoms that are appropriated by a certain Spirit, the
Recording Angels and their agents build an etheric form which is then placed in
the mother’s womb and gradually clothed with physical matter which then forms
the visible body of the newborn child.
Only
a small portion of the ether appropriated by a certain Ego is thus used, and
the remainder of the child’s vital body, or rather the material from which that
vehicle will eventually be made, is thus outside the dense body. For that
reason the vital body of a child protrudes much farther beyond the periphery of
the dense body than does that of an adult. During the period of growth this
store of ether atoms is drawn upon to vitalize the accretions within the body
until, at the time when the adult age is reached, the vital body protrudes only
from one to one and a half inches beyond the periphery of the dense body.
The
Western Wisdom School teaches as its fundamental maxim that “all occult
development begins with the vital body.” The part of the vital body formed of
the two higher ethers, the light ether and the reflecting ether, is what we may
term the soul body; that is to say, it is more closely linked with the desire body
and the mind and also more amenable to the Spirit’s touch than are the two
lower ethers. It is the vehicle of intellect, and is responsible for all that makes
man, man. Our observations, our aspirations, our character, etc., are due to
the work of the Spirit in these two higher ethers, which become more or less luminous
according to the nature of our character and habits. Also, as the dense body
assimilates particles of food and thus gains in flesh, so the two higher ethers
assimilate our good deeds during life and thus grow in volume as well.
According to our doings in this present life we thus increase or decrease that
which we brought with us at birth. This is the reason the Western Wisdom
Teaching says that all mystic development
begins with the vital body. »
(Chapter 2)
OBSERVATION
Unfortunately what Max Heindel said here, much is false
because ethers do not exist for the reasons that I explain in
this other article.
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